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 | (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) |  |
松の葉の細き葉毎におく露の千露もゆらに玉もこぼれず
matsu no ha no
hosoki hagoto ni
oku tsuyu no
chitsuyu mo yura ni
tama mo koborezu
on the pine needles,
each of the slender needles,
a dewdrop rests—
a thousand pearls lie
quivering, yet never fall
| (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) | |